Engineering Clinic

Installing OMNeT++ in Linux is quite easier now. Unlike the older versions, the latest version installs perfectly fine. OMNeT++ is a discrete event simulator like NS2, but quite easier in simulating the networks. OMNeT comes with the inbuilt graphics tools and other tools that are required to measure the performance of the networks. This post will let you know the installation steps for OMNeT++ in Linux Mint 17.1 OS USed: Linux Mint 17.1 64 bit OMNeT Version: 4.6 Assuming you have installed the OS just now. $] sudo apt-get update $] sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc g++ bison flex perl tcl-dev tk-dev blt libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev default-jre doxygen graphviz libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev libpcap-dev autoconf automake libtool libproj0 libgdal1-dev libfox-1.6-dev libgdal-dev libxerces-c-dev Download the software from  http://omnetpp.org/omnetpp Once downloaded copy the software to your /home folder (in my case, it is /home/pradeepkumar/ $] tar zxvf om